O. Henry Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Shadow Quotes

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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